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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Activating Gadgets in C
Message-ID: <13639@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 6 Aug 90 15:19:03 GMT
References: <2384@ryn.esg.dec.com> <13581@cbmvax.commodore.com> <325@modcomp.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax (Peter Cherna)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <325@modcomp.UUCP> kevin@modcomp.UUCP (Kevin Smith) writes:
>When I upgraded to 1.2 I was excited to have new gadget functions
>but when I used ActivateGadget it still didn't work since I wasn't waiting
>for ACTIVEWINDOW.  I must of cussed at this problem for two weeks before
>somebody gave me a working solution. Actually I had this problem when
>popping up a requester with gadgets in it and the string gadget would
>never activate.  The solution I got and still use today is to
>open up the requester then use a Delay() of a couple seconds and then 
>do an ActivateGadget().

Using Delay() only mostly works.  Its success would depend on what
processor you're running and what load the CPU is under, among other
things.  Waiting for ACTIVEWINDOW is reliable, and documented in the 1.3
RKMs.

>Kevin Smith   uunet!modcomp!kevin

     Peter
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